NEWS
CyrusOne
moves London
sites to 100%
renewable energy
yrusOne, a premier global data
centre REIT, has announced
that its London I and London II
data centre facilities are now running on
a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move
which the company says will transfer
energy annual usage equivalent to 52,000
households to zero-emissions sources.
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Comprising a combined 23MW of IT
power, both CyrusOne’s London I data
centre in Slough and its London II facility
in Prologis Park, Stockley, are now served
by Hudson Energy, an independent
provider of electricity and gas to
businesses across the UK.
CyrusOne has also confirmed that all new
London data centre inventory, including
the recently announced 9MW London
III facility in Stockley Park, will run off
renewable energy.
In addition to the reduction in carbon
emissions, CyrusOne customers will benefit
from reduced unit costs as a result of the
highly competitive rates secured through
the procurement process and exemptions
from the Climate Change Levy.
Tesh Durvasula, President – Europe,
CyrusOne, said: “As large energy users in the
UK, the data centre industry is in a strong
position to effect change in terms of how
green energy is priced and made available.”
Orange Belgium opens data
centre in Antwerp
range Belgium has opened
a new highly secure and
eco-efficient data centre in
Hoboken, Antwerp. a Power Usage Efficiency of < 1,2). The
construction started in May 2017 and
was finalised by the end of the summer
of 2018.
The 1,000 m² data centre will help
Orange to manage the growing
demand for mobile usage of its
customers by handling the billions
of day-to-day connections Orange
customers make to surf, call and
SMS. Orange Belgium invested more
than €14 million in the construction
of this best-in-class data centre. Orange CEO Michaël Trabbia and
President of the Board Johan
Deschuyffeleer officially opened the
data centre in the presence of Flemish
Minister of Innovation, Philippe Muyters.
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Orange Belgium started the design
of the building in 2016 together with
META architects and engineering
offices, Ingenium and Deerns.
The goal was to create an economic
data centre that excelled in
performance and sustainability
(with 3MW electrical capacity and
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The data centre, which will be used for
radio, telecom and IT equipment, offers
a total capacity of more than 500 high
density 52 units racks, installed on the
equivalent of 12 tennis courts.
The impressive building is more
eco-efficient than a standard data
centre, as it is able to use free
cooling for 98% of the year. It is
also highly secured and resilient
thanks to systematically redundant
critical elements.
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